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The Lowe Brothers, 1852-70: a Study in Business Relations on the North Pacific Coast The Lowe Brothers, 1852-70: A Study in Business Relations on the North Pacific Coast J. M. S. CARELESS It is well said that the rising town of Victoria took shape less as a little bit of Old England than as a little bit of Old San Francisco.1 Any such aphor­ ism, of course, requires all kinds of qualifications, but none would deny the close and constant contact between the emerging Vancouver Island port and the booming mid-nineteenth-century metropolis of the Pacific coast. And the careers of Thomas and James Lowe, two San Francisco- based merchants who extended their operations to Vancouver Island then moved to Victoria, seem to offer a cogent example of how west coast busi­ ness enterprise spread northward from its main centre into the growing hinterland community. Admittedly, one reason for choosing the Lowes for a case study is that a useful body of primary material exists in the British Columbia Archives: the well-written letters of Thomas Lowe, comprising both business and family correspondence, cover a considerable part of their activities.2 It would be fair to admit, also, that while prominent in business ranks, the Lowes were not wholly outstanding entrepreneurs. Moreover, their concerns with Victoria occupied only part of their lives. For years before moving there in the 1860s, they had been notably interested in Oregon as well, and in the early seventies Thomas Lowe retired to his native Scotland, while James returned to San Francisco, where he subsequently died. Hence their effective concern with Vancouver Island largely fell within the fifties and iWillard Ireland, as quoted in the Victoria Daily Colonist (hereafter Colonist), Sep­ tember 11, 1960 - though chiefly in reference to Victoria's physical appearance and architecture. 2The Thomas Lowe Letters at the Provincial Archives of British Columbia (here­ after referred to as PABC) fall in two groups, and there are two sets of transcripts made in 1954 from the original letter books. The first "Letters Outward, August 31, 1852, to November 17, 1863," deals with family correspondence and will hereafter be referred to as LO (1). The second, "Letters Outward, May 14, 1852, to Decem­ ber 10, 1859," mainly concerns business affairs and will hereafter be referred to as LO (2). There is also a small file of James Lowe papers at the PABC, but these will be given separate references below. 1 BC STUDIES, no. 2, Summer 1969 2 BC STUDIES sixties, and only in the latter decade could they be fully identified with it. Nevertheless the Lowe brothers were far from unimportant in the history of Victoria and the Island - and it may be argued that their careers have wider affinities and significance for the business development of the north Pacific coast in general. They were closely connected with the once-great trading power of the Hudson's Bay Company in the region; they were notable in developing Oregon commerce, in marketing Vancouver Island coal in San Francisco, and in seeking to promote the Island's trade. They shared in financing steamers for the Fraser River; they ran a prosperous commission and wholesale firm in Victoria, became provisioners to Her Majesty's ships at nearby Esquimalt, and held lands at Saanich and Sooke. And while Thomas purchased a leading Victoria hotel, James, active in the city's Chamber of Commerce, went into politics in a by-election of 1869, only to be defeated by the redoubtable Amor de Cosmos himself. Assuredly, then, they were men of moment and interest, deserving of study for more reason than the fact that Lowe papers exist. In any case, they need to be put into the context of the business community of the north west Pacific region in order to assess their relationship with Victoria, Bri­ tish Columbia, Oregon, and San Francisco. But this must properly begin at the beginning, with their family background, in far distant Scotland. Thomas Lowe, born in 1824, and James in 1830, were younger sons of Dr. John Lowe, surgeon, of Coupar Angus, Perthshire.3 Of the six sons and three daughters in the family, three of the boys would eventually go to America, and Thomas went first. Appointed an apprentice clerk in the Hudson's Bay Company at sixteen, he sailed from Gravesend in August 1841 for the Columbia.4 At Honolulu, however, he was ordered to Alaska instead and reached Sitka in April 1842. From there he was sent on to Fort Durham on Taku Inlet but soon found himself in the midst of virtual war, for the post was repeatedly harassed by hostile Taku Indians.5 The Company, in fact, decided it was not worth maintaining, and its twenty men were sent south to help establish the new post on Vancouver Island: Fort Victoria. Thus in June 1843 Thomas Lowe was with James Douglas and Roderick Finlayson at the founding of Victoria, and, as the youngest of its builders, he supervised parties of Indians bringing in lumber.6 When Douglas shortly information on the Lowe family background is derived variously from the Lowe Letters and from Vertical Files of press clippings (henceforth VF) on Thomas and James Lowe at the PABC. 4E. E. Rich, éd., McLoughlin's Fort Vancouver letters, second series, 1839-1844, Hudson's Bay Company series, VI, appendix B (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1943), p. 393. 5Letter from T. Lowe printed in Colonist, October 29, 1897. Hbid. The Lowe Brothers, 1852-70 3 returned to Fort Vancouver, Thomas went with him.7 Thereafter, for almost seven years, he was stationed at the Company's great Oregon headquarters as clerk and accountant, except when he was in charge of the Overland Express in 1847-48 and crossed to and from York Factory.8 He became part of a coterie of Hudson's Bay men and families in the lower Columbia area with whom he kept strong ties for years to come. Indeed, in 1849 he married LaRose Birnie, a daughter of James Birnie, the retired chief factor who had founded the settlement of Cathlamet.9 By this time, however, Thomas Lowe was growing restless in the service of a fur company whose days on the Lower Columbia were patently all but over. The advance of American settlement and the Oregon treaty had doomed the reign of Fort Vancouver, while the boom times spreading with the California gold discoveries promised a whole new range of opportunity. But particularly his marriage decided Thomas to leave the Company, "as the unsocial sort of life a married man led there," he wrote, "was anything but suited to my ideas of independence ... to mess at public table myself and see the blackguard cook and steward neglect and treat the families in any way they thought proper. ."10 There was soon a different, tragic reason. His wife of only a few months died of "lung disease," and he was impelled to break away.11 In March 1850 at the age of twenty-five, he re­ signed from the Company and moved to Oregon City.12 There he entered partnership with two older ex-Hudson's Bay men, George Traill Allan and Archibald McKinlay, two former chief traders. Allan had served from Norway House to Honolulu, as well as at Fort Van­ couver,13 McKinlay from the Red River to New Caledonia and Oregon, but both had retired early to launch out on their own.13 Thus the firm of Allan, McKinlay and Company was set up at Oregon City as a general store- keeping business, supplying settlers in the district and gold-seekers passing through and sending produce out to market. The new firm, a typical un- specialized frontier merchant enterprise, prospered in the good times and soon entertained thoughts of expansion. It was decided to send its junior partner to the chief supply and market centre of the west coast, San Fran­ cisco.14 There he could buy the goods needed for the Oregon inland trade and sell consignments for export. In the spring of 1852, accordingly, 7PABC, VF, T. Lowe. Hbid. 9PABC, "Miscellaneous Information relating to the Birnie Family." There were four­ teen children. Thomas Lowe stayed in close touch with the family. lOpABC, LO (2), T. Lowe to Dugald McTavish, May 14, 1852. 1:L"Birnie Family." Married in May, she died in September 1849. 12Rich, op. cit., appendix B, pp. 383, 394. **lbid. 14LO (2), T. Lowe to D. McTavish, May 14, 1852. 4 BC STUDIES Thomas Lowe sailed from the Columbia to the fast-rising California metro­ polis, "as the trade of Oregon now so much depends on the state of the California market."15 He arrived at the end of April and took an office at 145 Clay Street in the name of "Allan, McKinlay, Lowe and Co., Commission Merchants." This was not quite an agency of Allan, McKinlay and Company of Oregon City, nor yet a wholly separate organization - again typical of the interlocking partnerships of the era - for the San Francisco firm had its own books, its own funds, and was to conduct its own commission business in buying and selling goods, as well as supplying the Oregon City store or any up-country merchants who applied to it. Furthermore, while the three Oregon City partners, Allan, McKinlay, and Lowe, together held a half interest ($7500) in the new San Francisco enterprise, the other half was held by three sleep­ ing partners, John Ballenden, J. A. Grahame, and A. C. Anderson, each of whom had put up $2500 of the firm's capital and so would each receive a proportionate share of profits.16 These three, again, were Hudson's Bay men.
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